White House drops support for major Medicaid cut — The Obama administration backed away Monday from roughly $100 billion in Medicaid savings it had proposed during deficit-reduction talks earlier this year. — The move comes as liberals have pressed the White House to take Medicaid off …

Cliff Talks Progress Between Obama, Boehner — WASHINGTON—Budget negotiations between the White House and Republican House Speaker John Boehner have progressed steadily in recent days, people close to the process said, breathing life into talks that appeared to have stalled.

Two Cheers for Zero Dark Thirty's Torture Scenes — One scene features a bloodied, disoriented and humiliated man is strapped to a wall with his pants around his ankles. A second scene depicts the same man having liquid forcibly poured down his throat; later, he's shoved into a box that could barely hold your stereo.

Zero Dark Thirty: new torture-glorifying film wins raves — Can a movie that relies on fabrications to generate support for war crimes still be considered great? — (updated below - Update II [Tues.]) — Earlier this year, the film “Zero Dark Thirty”, which purports to dramatize the hunt …

Panel Recommends that Maine Prosecutor be Suspended … Assistant Hancock County District Attorney Mary Kellett is being recommended for suspension by a panel of the Maine Board of Bar Overseers. Created by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, the board governs the conduct of lawyers.

NO SHOTS FIRED: STATE DEPT BENGHAZI SECURITY FORCE UNARMED — A source with personal knowledge of the security situation in Benghazi told Breitbart News that Senators who listened to closed door testimony about the Benghazi attack were shocked to learn State Department security personnel agents were not immediately armed.

Republicans must wise up — The biggest problem the Republican Party faces is not uninspiring candidates or unsound tactics. It is unpopular ideas. — This reality was brought home in last month's election. It's playing out in the struggle over how to avoid the “fiscal cliff.”

In Talks, House Majority Weighs Loyalty to Voters — WASHINGTON — As their leaders inch toward agreeing to higher tax rates, dozens of House Republicans find themselves caught between the will of a larger American public that favors higher taxes on the rich and the wishes of constituents …

A Resistance Movement Rises Against ObamaCare — This article appears in the December 24, 2012 issue of Forbes. — (Photo credit: Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com) — ObamaCare may be the law, but a major resistance movement has already sprouted across the U.S. Though approval …

Sens. Klobuchar, Hagan: Delay medical device tax — Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) on Monday sought to delay a new tax on medical devices, which is part of President Obama's signature healthcare law. — The senators — both from states where the device industry …

GOP mute as Supreme Court tackles gay marriage — House Republican leaders had a uniform response to the Supreme Court's decision to take up gay marriage: Silence. — The high court's decision last week to hear two cases relating to same-sex marriage puts that issue at the center of the national debate.

Hostess Maneuver Deprived Pension — Hostess Brands Inc. said it used wages that were supposed to help fund employee pensions for the company's operations as it sank toward bankruptcy. — It isn't clear how many of the Irving, Texas, company's workers were affected by the move …

Mitt in the Afterlife — Certainly you've seen them, or at least one — that steady drumbeat of oddly normal and yet somehow surreal pictures of post-defeat Mitt Romney that keep showing up everywhere. Here, gassing up the minivan with hair and posture right out of a screen test for The Hangover 5.

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